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by kombookcha 7mo ago
Eleven years seems like a very long time to be a Philly street dog - kinda makes you wonder if it wasn't adopted by somebody in the interrim before ending up with the girl somehow.
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by kombookcha 7mo ago
Exactly. The price to actually do this is simply not one the US is willing to pay.
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by kombookcha 7mo ago
I think this is the elephant in the roomt - in terms of quantifiable goals, Iran is winning this thing. I think they're going to want to punish the US and Israel to an extent where they will be reluctant to feel this particular sting a
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by kombookcha 7mo ago
Oh, I misread your post - that's fair!
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by kombookcha 7mo ago
The rejection is based on the dishonesty of explicitly committing to standard A and then knowingly violating it, not on LLM use as such. I think that's pretty fair, considering that everyone could have just chosen B if they wanted to.
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by kombookcha 7mo ago
I think the fundamental problem is that humans use language to refer to things and constructs that exist and have various relationships with eachother in meatspace, whereas LLMs use words solely as things that exist in relation to other wor
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by kombookcha 7mo ago
A boss at my former job would constantly generate AI images and send them to the graphics guy for him to make 'adjustments' and no matter how many times the graphics guy explained that these images are much more trouble to clean u
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by kombookcha 7mo ago
LLMs by definition cannot deduce, because they cannot not know or think. There's guard rails to try to make it more correct than wrong, but ultimately it's about which words seem like they would fit when coming after your words. I
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by kombookcha 7mo ago
That sounds insufferable and I'm sorry your coworker and your bosses have gotten this hypnotized. There are actual use cases, but this type of productivity cargo cult drives me up the wall. At least if they were into filling the office
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by kombookcha 7mo ago
They make it their business to replace resignees with loyalists. In terms of generating friction for the regime, it makes more sense to make your stand in office and make them fire you, but that carries a lot of personal/career costs t
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by kombookcha 7mo ago
I read somewhere that Australia has 10-14 days of gasoline supply - I have no idea how many countries run this tight and exposed, but it seems to be surprisingly widespread - it's wild how the global economy runs on just-in-time shippi
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by kombookcha 7mo ago
It's unfortunate but the marketing spin has transcended into public discourse, to the point where people take these wild aspirational claims about LLMs for granted. As opposed to what they are - sales pitches. It doesn't help that
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by kombookcha 7mo ago
What a wonderful read.
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by kombookcha 8mo ago
This is already sort of in Jurassic Park 3, which features a 3D-printed velociraptor larynx that can be blown into to reproduce vocalizations remniscent of the velociraptors in the movie. At the end of the movie Alan Grant blows in it, conf
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by kombookcha 8mo ago
This would probably still be way better than the status quo, because it would introduce a higher barrier for entry and more friction into the slop delivery system and give the moderation and spam detection a chance to catch up. Much easier
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by kombookcha 8mo ago
Guarding your heart with elegant nonsense you don't really mean is a classic defensive posture, and probably is directly impeding their ability to be present in emotionally intense (and often difficult) situations. It reminded me of th
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by kombookcha 8mo ago
Hah, you got me there! I'll try to keep the ratio flipped correctly next time ;) I read that article recently, so the similarities might not be entirely coincidental. 'JPEG of thought' is gonna stay in my vocabulary for a whi
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by kombookcha 8mo ago
Personally I strongly doubt it. Since the nature of LLM's does not allow them semantic content or context, I believe it is inherently a tool unsuited for this task. As far as I can tell, it's a limitation of the technology itself,
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by kombookcha 8mo ago
This is one of my major concerns about people trying to use these tools for 'efficiency'. The only plausible value in somebody writing a huge report and somebody else reading it is information transfer. LLM's are notoriously
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by kombookcha 8mo ago
Thank you, that was great. (And what a beautiful little page - click the white spots on the map in the header, more trees and houses spring up)
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by kombookcha 8mo ago
Very clever to introduce it to kids as purely a puzzle game! I'll keep that in mind. When my girlfriend and I play, we sometimes give unofficial bonus points as compensation for suboptimal plays that fill out unseemly gaps that would o
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by kombookcha 8mo ago
Spiel des Jahres (Game of the Year) is a boardgame award that notably favors family-friendly accessibility. If you're seeing the award on the box, you can be confident that even if the strategy can potentially get really deep, you can
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by kombookcha 8mo ago
+1 for Root! For a nice entry game for a group setting, I recommend Carcassonne. It has a simple and engaging basic gameplay with a surprising amount of depth, that can easily be scaled up and down in complexity depending on your group&#x27
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by kombookcha 8mo ago
For you mindwarriors out there who like to go on the offence, leave a removable fold over your third eye so you can quickly flip it open and be ready to engage in PSI-combat on the astral plane or realspace as the situation requires.
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by kombookcha 8mo ago
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...
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by kombookcha 8mo ago
We are all constantly being gaslit. People have insane amounts of money and prestige riding on this thing paying off in such a comically huge way that it can absolutely not deliver on it in the foreseeable future. Creating a constant pressi
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by kombookcha 8mo ago
>The problem with this that after doing this hard work someone can just copy easily your hard work and UI/UX taste. Or indeed, somebody might steal and launder your work by scooping them up into a training set for their model and le
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by kombookcha 8mo ago
In a good 'niche forums and quirky local cultures' type of way, or in the annoying epic bacon kind of way?
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by kombookcha 8mo ago
That was certainly my experience. I got rid of the app and only used reddit in browser mode to read without participating. The noticeable quality drop after the migration, as well as all the artificial hurdles they put up to force you back
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by kombookcha 2y ago
Yeah, very curious about how there is this calibre of high stakes drama and intrigue among 1920s elephant keepers.

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